Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida has honored Bank of Florida-Southwest as the Collier County Business of the Year in recognition of the bank employees who volunteer in public school classrooms.

Bank of Florida employees have participated in the teaching program for more than five years. Associates from a variety of areas of the bank, including finance, retail banking and human resources, have volunteered their time and talent to instruct students from elementary grades thought high school in Collier and Lee counties.

Junior Achievement trains business people to teach the economics of life in third- through 12th-grade classrooms with a curriculum that includes the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

The program is reaching more than 9,500 students in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties during the current school year.

For information, call 225-2590 or visit online at: www.JASWFL.org.